The RIAA said Good had received more than 100,000 copyright infringement notifications against mp3skull.com, yet it still appears more often in the top ten results than licensed retailers such as Apple.

“Searches for popular music continue to yield results that emphasise illegal sites at the expense of legitimate services, which are often relegated to later pages,” he said.

Marks also complained that Google’s auto-complete function continues to lead users to illicit sites.

Geoff Taylor, chief of BPI, the RIAA’s UK counterpart, recently told the Telegraph that Google had made progress in its anti-piracy efforts, but unlawful operators were still "dominating" search results.

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